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give someone grey hair

idiom

To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.


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  1. 01

    as if someone owns the place

    Alternative form of like someone owns the place.

  2. 02

    bad hair day

    A day when things seem to be unmanageable or go wrong.

  3. 03

    Barnet

    [Cockney slang]hair

    via Barnet Fair

  4. 04

    beat someone round the ears

    To beat (a person) with blows about the head.

  5. 05

    bless someone with

    To give or bestow, as a gift from God.

  6. 06

    bring someone to their knees

    To defeat and make submit to orders.

  7. 07

    call someone every name in the book

    To call someone many abusive names.

  8. 08

    call someone everything but a child of God

    To call someone many abusive names.

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